CONTEXT
"It’s exhausting to try to stay critical while taking part in the very system you are criticising."
OBJECTIVES
PROBLEM
CHALLENGE
Start from a dense, extensive body of Western sociological theory to portray and narrate a situation that feels everyday and familiar to many of us.
A first point of contact for collective identification and for opening up dialogue.
CONTEXT
"It’s exhausting to try to stay critical while taking part in the very system you are criticising."
OBJECTIVES
PROBLEM
CHALLENGE
Start from a dense, extensive body of Western sociological theory to portray and narrate a situation that feels everyday and familiar to many of us.
A first point of contact for collective identification and for opening up dialogue.
A Story of Creative Failure
A Story of Creative Failure
PROJECT
Research, scripting, illustration and editorial design for an independent graphic novel.
A comic that translates sociological theory on precarity and exhaustion into an intimate visual narrative, using creative failure as a tool for reflection.
Graphic Design
Editorial
Illustration
CONTEXT
"It’s exhausting to try to stay critical while taking part in the very system you are criticising."
OBJECTIVES
Explore reflexive impotence through art.
The comic format aims to work as an honest, vulnerable record of the difficulties of the personal process of looking for creative strategies for social action.
OBJECTIVES
PROBLEM
CHALLENGE
CONCEPT
Embracing our vulnerability, our constant anxiety and our mistakes is not resignation; it is taking off the pressure of being “individual saviours” to understand that the only way out is interdependence.
Accepting that we don’t have the magic answers and that we are going to screw up a thousand times over is the first step to start creating alternatives for collective social action.
CONCEPT
Embracing our vulnerability, our constant anxiety and our mistakes is not resignation; it is taking off the pressure of being “individual saviours” to understand that the only way out is interdependence.
Accepting that we don’t have the magic answers and that we are going to screw up a thousand times over is the first step to start creating alternatives for collective social action.
METHODOLOGY
Research
Sketches & prototypes
Narrative & Script
Illustration
Layout
Printing & Binding
METHODOLOGY
Research
Sketches & prototypes
Narrative & Script
Illustration
Layout
Printing & Binding
STRATEGY
AUTOFICTION
Putting myself in as the main character, in dialogue with my own close network, is an attempt at radical vulnerability. Always trying to keep the reflection honest and genuine, going through failure and self-criticism without falling into impotence or self-pity.
VULNERABILITY
The visual identity also aims to show its own human, imperfect side; every stroke drawn by hand, without erasing a single mistake or sketch line. And with a typeface made with paper and pencil.
COMIC FORMAT
Advocating for accessibility also means translating dense reflections and information into a format that becomes part of our everyday life.
STRATEGY
AUTOFICTION
Putting myself in as the main character, in dialogue with my own close network, is an attempt at radical vulnerability. Always trying to keep the reflection honest and genuine, going through failure and self-criticism without falling into impotence or self-pity.
VULNERABILITY
The visual identity also aims to show its own human, imperfect side; every stroke drawn by hand, without erasing a single mistake or sketch line. And with a typeface made with paper and pencil.
COMIC FORMAT
Advocating for accessibility also means translating dense reflections and information into a format that becomes part of our everyday life.
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Intent
Size
125 × 176 mm
Facing Pages
Yes
Bleed
3 mm
Colour
CMYK
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300 dpi
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Typeface
ComicFmpFont (custom typeface)
Type size
13 pt
Leading
12 pt
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Crop Marks
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Bleed Marks
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Page Information
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Colour Profile
ISO Coated v2 300% (ECI)
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